''reluctant'' member of the outlawed...

IRA MAN SENTENCED. A

July 25, 1986

LONDON — IRA MAN SENTENCED. A ''reluctant'' member of the outlawed Irish Republican Army was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison for his part in the bomb blast that almost killed Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in October 1984. Donal Craig, 28, of Donegal, Ireland, was arrested at a north London apartment in June last year. He pleaded guilty to the charges when the trial opened last month. Craig rented an apartment and a car for Patrick Magee, who was given eight life sentences last month for planting the bomb that killed five people at the Grand Hotel in Brighton.